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Fruition vs Gleaning - What's the difference?

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Fruition is a related term of gleaning.


As nouns the difference between fruition and gleaning

is that fruition is the fulfillment of something worked for or fruition can be the condition of bearing fruit while gleaning is something learned by gleaning.

As a verb gleaning is

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fruition

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • The fulfillment of something worked for.
  • The enjoyment derived from a possession.

    • Etymology 2

    Erroneously from (fruit) (though now standard usage)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The condition of bearing fruit.

    • gleaning

    English

    (wikipedia gleaning)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something learned by gleaning.
  • The act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest.
  • (ornithology) The catching of insects and other invertebrates by plucking them from within foliage, or sometimes from the ground. It may also be applied to where prey is picked off, or from within, natural and man-made surfaces such as rock faces and under the eaves of houses.

    • Verb

    (head)